%The coverage problem in WSNs is becoming more and more important for many applications ranging from military applications such as battlefield surveillance to the civilian applications such as health-care surveillance and habitant monitoring.
The main contributions in this dissertation concentrate on designing distributed optimization protocols to extend the lifetime of WSNs. We summarize the main contributions of our research as follows:
%The coverage problem in WSNs is becoming more and more important for many applications ranging from military applications such as battlefield surveillance to the civilian applications such as health-care surveillance and habitant monitoring.
The main contributions in this dissertation concentrate on designing distributed optimization protocols to extend the lifetime of WSNs. We summarize the main contributions of our research as follows: